Interactive Narratives
Live performance and digital works designed to be explored and changed by the people who play them.
Rock Bottom
Interactive Film Installation
Dive into the Finnish Sea and choose if you make it
out alive. Pass through bubbles and waves to
physically choose which of two paths to take. This
installation was commissioned by Aalto University and displayed as apart of Helsinki design week 2024.
Team: Isabelle Smith, Joao Alcobia Sousa, Keita
Prokopcenko, and Roosje Lugthart.
Stories to Get Us Through the Night
Interactive Play
Stories to Get Us Through the Night, is a play with multiple endings in which the audience members use candles to determine which of four distinct endings is experienced by the characters. The story follows three storytellers at a makeshift academy 20 years after an apocalyptic event. People now live in semi-nomadic groups, depending on a “teller” to share stories that help them fall asleep at night. There are two points during the show when the audience members use their candles to choose between stories, choosing to illuminate or obscure what they hear. We ask “what kind of stories do you want to hear at the end of the world?”
Following a staged reading in December 2022, this play received its world premiere production at Brick Aux in February 2024.
Cast and Crew
Written and produced by Isabelle Smith
Directed by Erin Gray
Stage Managed and Assistant Directed by Eliana Gershon
Produced by Naomi Schiller
Costumes and Styling by Alex Wilensky
Featuring Naomi Jackson, Billy Bates, Lydia Sims, and KCA
Promotional poster art by Eve Anderson
Watercolor illustrations by Elizabeth Butler
Production Images
Swallowed by the Subway
Text Adventure
Swallowed by the Subway is a digital text based adventure that takes you on a trudge through the bowels of the Subway.
You're miserable in New York City, and after a horrible night of meeting people who will never actually want to be friends with you, you wake up trapped in the subway tunnels. When a mysterious rat offers to help get you out, will you accept the terms of their agreement?
Art by Erin Gray
